Executive Board
Clare Treacy
NWCI Chairperson (Irish Nurses & Midwives Organisation- INMO)
Tel: 01 664 0611
Clare has been a member of the NWCI Executive Board since 2004, and was re-elected for a third term in 2008. She is a registered general and psychiatric nurse and is currently the Director of Social Policy with the Irish Nurses & Midwives Organisation (INMO). She has many years experience of working in trade unions, both in Australia and Ireland and is currently a member of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Executive Council, and Chair of ICTU's Women's Committee. She has a post-graduate diploma in equality studies and industrial relations and also holds a Masters in Equality Studies for which the topic of her thesis was gender isssues in nursing.
Salome Mbugua
NWCI Deputy Chairperson (AkiDwA- The African & Migrant Women's Network Ireland)
Tel: 01 814 8582
Salome is the founder of AkiDwA the African and Migrant Women's Network Ireland and currently the National Director. Her background is in Social Work and Community Development, she is an activist and advocate of human rights, justice and gender equality She serves on the board of the Equality Authority, Observatory Committee and National Steering Committee on Violence Against Women. She is on the advisory group coordinated by the NWCI on development of NAP by the Department of Foreign Affairs on resolution 1325, women peace and security. She is a Board member of Black European Women Council based in Vienna and is a member and coordinator in Ireland of European Network of Migrant Women based in Brussels and administered by the European Women's Lobby.
Ellen O'Malley-Dunlop
(Dublin Rape Crisis Centre)
Tel: 01 661 4911
Ellen was elected to the Board of the NWCI in June 2008. She has been CEO of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre for the last 2 years. She is a Group Analyst and Pyschotherapist by profession and set up a Masters Programme in Trinity College with 5 colleagues. Ellen is a former Chair of the Irish Council for Psychotherapy. Ellen represents the DRCC on the Irish Observatory on Violence Against Women.
Tessa Collins
(Pavee Point)
Tel: 01 878 0255
Tessa Collins, a Traveller from Finglas Co, Dublin, works within Pavee Point's Violence Against Women Programme. She was educated in Manchester and returned to Ireland in 1991, whereupon she qualified as a Traveller Primary Health Care Worker and worked with families on health issues in the Finglas and Blanchardstown areas. She became Assistant Co-ordinator of a Primary Health Care project in 2006. Tessa represents Traveller women on the eastern Regional Advisory Committee on Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence, the Irish Observatory on Violence Against Women, the Women's Human Rights Alliance and was a member of the Crisis Pregnancy Consultative Committee.
Maura Butler
(Irish Women Lawyer's Association)
Tel: 01 672 4987
Maura was first elected to the Board of the NWCI in May 2006, and re-elcted for a second term in June 2008. Maura was elected NWCI Chairperson in October 2008. Maura qualified as a solicitor in 1985, and she has lectured at university level in the areas of criminal law and employment law, joining the Education Department of the Law Society of Ireland as a course co-ordinator in 1999. Maura is the editor of the Society's 'Criminal Litigation Manual' which was published in Septemnber 2006. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Irish Women Lawyer's Association and a Committee Member of the Annual Burren Law School.
Moninne Griffith
(Marriage Equality)
Tel: 01 873 4183
Moninne Griffith is the Director with MarriagEquality, a single-issue organisation working for equal marriage rights for same-sex couples in Ireland.
As part of her role in MarriagEquality, Moninne managed the mobilization, communications and legal functions of the organisation. Moninne also worked on the Irish Equality Authority's report on Enabling Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual individuals to access their rights under the Equality law. Moninne has also worked as a volunteer for Women's Aid. Before moving to the not-for-profit sector, Moninne was a practicing solicitor for ten years and continues to volunteer in this area for the Free Legal Advice Centres in Dublin. Moninne holds a BCL from UCD, was admitted to the roll of solicitors in 1998 and since then completed an MA in Women's Studies in 2007.
Aileen Heverin
(Women of North East Galway)
Aileen has been on the Board of the NWCI since 2004, and was reelected for a third term in June 2008. Aileen is a founder member of Women of North East Galway, set up 10 years ago to empower women through education and training and which caters for six rural areas. She is currently the Director of the centre which runs various courses in education including computing skills, parenting and mother and toddler groups Aileen has been involved in women's issues for a long time both in Dublin and Donegal before moving to live in Galway and has an abiding interest in education and training as it effects women.
Miriam Holt
(National Collective of Community Based Women’s Networks - NCCWN)
Miriam is the Voluntary Chair of Waterford Women's Centre Management Committee, Director of NCCWN, Member of local and regional CDPs Networks, Member of Waterford Volunteering Steering Committee, Member of SIM Committee of Waterford City Council, Member of Waterford Area Partnership's Community Development Strategic Committee, Secretary of Glor na Mara Primary Schools Parents Association.
Recently, Miriam temporarily stepped into the role of National Coordinator of the NCCWN (2010). She is committed to a collective feminist movement in Ireland. Miriam strongly believes that Women's voices, particularly those of marginalised, socially excluded, minority and working class women, must be heard to result in meaningful gender equality.
Breda Raggett
(Irish Countrywomen's Association - ICA)
Breda was first elected to the NWCI Board in May 2006, and reelected for a second term in June 2008. Breda has been a member of the ICA for 32 years and served as ICA National President from 2000-2003 She has worked to promote womens issues including womens participation in further education. Breda has worked internationally with many womens organisations including working closely with the womens movement in Albania She has served on several government committees. Breda is currently on the Board of Management of the Kilkenny Womens Refuge Centre Amber.
Catherine Lynch
(Longford Womens Link, LWL)
Catherine Lynch is a Board member of LWL a local women's organisation that seeks to ensure women of Longford can reach their full potential in a safe and equal society. Catherine previously worked as Head of services with LWL. She has worked in the area of equality and women's rights since the 1990s. She has worked with NCCWN and National Consultative Committee on Racism - NCCR. She also lectures in UCD and NUI Maynooth on equality issues and works with European Network Against Racism - ENAR Ireland. She has a good knowledge of good governance through sitting on Boards (LWL & AkiDwA) and reporting directly to management committees as well as her consultancy work and studies.
Siobhan O’Donoghue
(Migrant Rights Centre of Ireland)
Tel: 01 889 7570
Siobhan is a professional community worker and has been the Director of the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland since 2002. She has worked for many years in community sector organisations in Ireland, ranging from local grass roots organisations to national policy organisations and structures. Siobhan was a member of the National Economic and Social Council from 1999 to 2003 and supported the Community Platform, a network of 27 national anti-poverty, equality and social inclusion organisations in national social partnership talks in the late 1990's. Siobhan's experience spans equality issues, anti-racism, community work and campaigning at a local, national and global level. She was the Irish representative on the Board of the European Network Against Racism and a Board member of the National Consultative Committee on Racism and interculturalism. She is the current Chairperson of the Community Workers Coop.